City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 23 of 94911th January 1790


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T: Shelton
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say, at the Parish
of Saint Botolph Billingsgate in the Ward of Billingsgate in London aforesaid on the Eleventh day of January in the
thirtieth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Ward by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King Defender of the faith etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and
Borough of Southwark on view of yr body of Catherine Dunstree< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Beazley< no role >
James Mills< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > George Huggins< no role > John Rice< no role > Edmund Bell< no role > William Coaks James Hatted William Hoye< no role >
France's Matthews< no role > William Read< no role > and William Tomlinson< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly
chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Catherine Dunstree< no role > came to
her death say upon their oath that the said Catherine Dunstree< no role > did then lately before accidentally casually and by
misfortune fact into the River Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was [..]
suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and drowning she the said Catherine Dunstree< no role > did die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Catherine Dunstree< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said William Beazley< no role > the Foreman of the said Jeary Leaman< no role > heJurors on behalf of himself and the rest
of his fellows on their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the daysaithyear and place first above written.

W Beazley [mark] Foreman




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